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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:54:07 +0100 (BST)
From: andrew brian clegg <a DOT clegg AT mail DOT cryst DOT bbk DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Windows volume labels
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Hi folks,

Apologies if this is well-documented but I can't find an answer in the 
usual places.

Is there a cygwin-friendly way of retrieving the volume label for a 
particular drive (or for all drives) in e.g. a perl or shell script? Short 
of running Windows' dir.exe on the appropriate drive and parsing the 
result!

Or would I have to use the Windows API?

Cheers,

Andrew.




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